In fact, it breathed its first breath on the day after Christmas, 2007, when lunatic fringer Daniel Pipes concocted the smear in his Front Page magazine, ostensibly to keep the words "Muslim" and "Obama" in the same sentence for just a little bit longer.

While Arlen Specter may have something to fear in terms of a primary challenge (although I suspect not, and even if he did get knocked off by a lunatic fringer the ultimate election result would be another Democratic senator from PA), being from the great state of Maine, I can assure you that Collins and Snowe most certainly do not.